jdreyer wrote on Feb 26, 2013, 15:10:Whereas hackers would have an easy time exploiting the code on a PC to produce gold and items, ruining the RMAH, I imagine they're more comfortable with the code residing on a console where it's much less accessible. Not defending their actions here, I'm as pissed as anyone that D3 is always online, but trying to guess at their rationale.

A friend of mine who was working on that quickly C&D'd server emulator said it's really more down to their actual netcode which has shown to be quite robust. They had managed to get some of the AI stuff functioning when Blizzard legal swooped in.